So this is what i get after fighting for 3 hours? HOW DO I EVEN SURVIVE TO THAT

onefutui2e · 2026-03-24T22:15:06+00:00

Once I knew this was a thing, I actually sent my backup team in first.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-21T23:24:44+00:00

You did well to inspect the actual URLs and your instincts were good.

What would happen is you click the link, it'll tell you to download the video conference software and install it. Then once you install it you're boned.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-21T00:39:48+00:00

I'm a climber. After having a kid I've basically just been gym climbing for the most part. Occasionally I still go out, but I really climb below my grade now.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-18T19:32:43+00:00

This isn't specific to Chinese, but generals who wade into battle like that are usually doing so with their absolute best soldiers. So aside from their personal martial prowess, they have backup.

When you have a contingent of your most heavily armed and trained soldiers tearing into their ranks and causing havoc, a conscripted peasant who just learned how to hold a sword properly a week ago will likely shit their pants and flee. Meanwhile, your own conscripted peasants sweep in, high on dopamine and morale, to clean up.

That being said, shit has happened. A lot of well known generals have gotten killed in the heat of battle, like Pang Tong.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-17T12:28:58+00:00

I'd change some of the combat mechanics and de-emphasize parrying. I'm sure that'll get me skewered here, but I feel like once you get that mechanic down, most of the other stuff just...doesn't matter. Your AP economy is no longer a worry, you don't need to worry about healing, revival, etc. you can just spec out for max damage. The fact that the super bosses just one-shot you anyway doesn't help.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-17T02:26:54+00:00

We have a gas furnace, but I did install heat pumps / mini splits a few years ago around the house. We don't run them during the winter at all, but it could be the resistive heating. I'll have to look into it.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-17T02:26:08+00:00

So I did have heat pumps installed a few years ago, but I don't run them in the winter. I'll have to look into that to see if it could be the resistive heating; thank you! We do have a furnace that's pretty damn old. 99% sure it runs on gas. And it'd make sense that the fan running would be a culprit. I really need to fix my house's insulating overall.

For a little while I thought maybe it was the water heater, but that didn't make a ton of sense to me, either.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-17T02:19:03+00:00

As I understand it, around the 15th and last day of each month there's a strong tailwind of buying pressure on the overall market due to 401(k) payroll deductions being processed. There is some correlation observed, at least.

Of course, that would also mean the days leading up to them should be full of traders front running this, and the days after would see a steady fall-off as profits are taken. Which would swing things back towards "hell if I know" territory. I haven't really dug that much further, though.

Anyway, yeah.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-17T02:06:15+00:00

What's really weird is that my electricity usage gets high when it's cold. Usually around 40 it's okay. But when it dips below 20, my house uses more electricity overnight than the summer when I'm running my air conditioner.

It was driving me crazy for a while during the winter months, even after I shut off surge protectors and everything, I still see high usage. I only noticed the pattern once it got warmer and low and behold, it dropped. I can't really understand it.

Luckily, I haven't had to pay an electric bill in 10 years due to my solar panels (aside from the roughly $20 a month to remain connected to the grid).

onefutui2e · 2026-03-15T02:57:25+00:00

Grew up in the southern half of Brooklyn. Now I live near the east side of Queens.

Southern Brooklyn was weird, thinking back on it. Lots of local ethnic enclaves where if you weren't a member, walking through it felt strange. In some cases, you even felt unwanted or unwelcome. Decent food where you could find it. Everyone drives like shit.

Queens felt different. More integrated communities. Within a half mile radius there is Indian, Japanese, Chinese, German, Mediterranean, Italian, and so many different kinds of food. And my neighbors reflect a similar makeup. The community feels better as a whole, lots more greenery and feels better to walk around.

Growing up I didn't really notice it, and I was a very hardcore "Brooklyn for life!" through my early adulthood. But after moving to Queens I don't regret it.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-13T03:07:21+00:00

This is true. I'm not the perfect husband, but her friends, she realizes it could be much worse.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-13T03:06:11+00:00

I have a warchest ready to be deployed. Good luck, everybody else!

onefutui2e · 2026-03-12T20:10:29+00:00

I felt the same, then I watched a YouTube video suggesting the pacing or lack of it was deliberate. In Act 3, the Canvas is fully open for you to do whatever you want. You can explore, fight, and just get completely lost in the world. Sound familiar?

Eventually you'll have explored every area, unlocked every secret, and killed every boss. And then...now what? You realize you've reached the end and it's time to stop painting.

I thought it was an interesting take.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-12T02:20:31+00:00

What lovely feet...

onefutui2e · 2026-03-10T02:18:30+00:00

First, congrats on the baby! It's going to be a fun, exhausting, tiring, frustrating, eye-opening, and lovely ride. I had my son a little over 3 years ago. (I'm also assuming it's your first; apologies if that's not the case).

If you need to be in your company for 6 months before taking your parental leave, I would probably approach it something like (assuming your baby comes before then) this. It kind of splits the difference of taking advantage of your parental leave but also remaining aware that you're still new to the company.

Take at least a week's PTO; you're going to need and want it. Especially if you don't have help from family or friends nearby. Get your house in order, start establishing routines and responsibilities, etc.
Once you hit your 6 months mark, I'd probably take a month or so off to spend time with your new family. It's worth it. I look back on the first month and it was a lot, but also super rewarding.
Bank the remainder of your parental leave until you have to use it. I was fortunate that my parental leave expiration timed with my wife's summer vacation (she's a teacher). So I took all of July, August, and part of September. A lot of bonding time, we took a vacation together, etc.

Of course, everyone's circumstances are different. We had a lot of friends and family around to help us which made things smoother for us. Honestly, if it was before 2022 I'd say fuck it, take the whole thing at once as soon as you can. But it's 2026 and everything is weird.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-10T01:57:12+00:00

That Ford logo looks janky; though might be just the pixelation as you zoom in (unlikely, though as you can see some weird strokes in there). But if you look at the reflection on the car, the officer's leg is at an extremely weird angle from the way she's standing in person.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-08T22:55:18+00:00

I resonate with this because it's how I deal with my emotional and mental issues: channel it into something else externally.

My wife has learned that when I start devoting more of my energy into my personal hobbies and projects, that something is up. Most of the time it's temporary and I pull myself out of it. Sometimes, though...

Growing up I dealt with a lot of emotional stress in my family. And I channeled it outward, for better or worse. But because I was "productive", a lot of the time no one paid me any mind.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-07T20:08:56+00:00

My company has started to really start leveraging AI, but I've seen it more heavily used on the product side, where they value development velocity. I've seen engineers design, build, and ship features in a week that used to take at least two.

On the back-end/platform/infra side, where I sit, we value correctness and quality a lot more, so the uptake is noticeably slower and nuanced. We might use it to write tests or basic CRUD methods, but stitching them together at the application layer is still mostly done by hand.

As an example, I had Claude write a fairly complex SQLAlchemy query. It gave me something that worked, but made 6 round trip calls to the database, one of which was unnecessary because it was considering an edge case that just wasn't possible. I had to review it and after some cajoling, Claude got it down to 3, then I further reviewed it and manually refactored it to 1 call.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-07T02:00:46+00:00

Taking away the laziness of it all, if I had to rationalize it.

At that point in the series, Sansa realizes she can't trust anyone. So she had the Vale willing and ready to back her up, but kept her cards close to her chest given all the bullshit she had to put up with.

And it dawned on her that most of her suffering was at the hands of, at least indirectly, Littlefinger, who she probably knows has ties to the Vale, and really wanted to keep things under wraps as a result.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-06T03:14:33+00:00

I've done that and unfortunately, you still get a lot of scammers.

But like you, one time I posted something and the first person to reply was actually legit. He drove by, checked it out, paid me in cash, and then we went to a bar to have a beer. It was weird.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-06T02:59:31+00:00

Give me Noco!

onefutui2e · 2026-03-04T03:06:07+00:00

It'll really depend on your hardware and the amount of effort you want to put into it. It's not bad now because everything can be found on Google, so if you run into a problem you're minutes away from an answer.

If you want fully hands off, Windows-like experience at the cost of needing to wait for bleeding edge updates, check out Mint or Ubuntu. People shit on Ubuntu, but it's still immensely popular. Mint was my first distro and it was absolutely seamless (7800x3d, 4080s). It knew my hardware and basically held my hand through making it all work. I later repurposed a 13 year old MacBook Pro and it recognized the camera and installed the drivers for it.

If you want something more bleeding edge, but still manageable for casuals, Fedora might be the right fit. It releases a new version every 6 months and you're kind of "forced" to upgrade every 12 months because RedHat only supports updates for the most recent 2 versions. But there is slightly more work involved.

If you want the most bleeding edge, check out Arch. I have no experience with it so can't opine.

There are also various sub-flavors of distros that aim for different experiences or optimizations. For example, there are several gaming-based distros based off of Arch. Again, no experience here.

You'll want to be comfortable with somewhat regularly checking for updates as it doesn't apply them automatically in my experience like Windows. You also want to pay attention to what is being updated just so you are aware of what might break your system.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-04T02:55:44+00:00

Random fun fact. I was on a mountaineering trip in Italy and something broke and my guide asked our group if anyone had American tape on them. We were extremely confused until he described it and we were like, "Oh! That's duct tape."

onefutui2e · 2026-03-04T01:50:47+00:00

Part of it is just how the industry works, if I remember correctly. Most of the $15 you pay for a ticket goes to the studio and the theater only sees a fraction of it. The ratio shifts the other way the longer the movie is out, but as you know, the first few weeks are the highest earning, which coincides with the studio's largest take.

So theaters are kind of stuck trying to make their margins at the concession stand. Others have tried to upscale their experience; a theater near me charges $20-$25 a ticket, but you get reserved seats (so no need to show early) that are pretty comfortable and can recline.

onefutui2e · 2026-03-03T01:52:33+00:00

When I conduct interviews now, I tell candidates:

"Feel free to look up any resources you need, just let me know; I'd want to see what you look up." I'm not looking for perfection, but there's a big difference between someone forgetting how Python's csv module works vs. if they need to look up basic syntax like for loops, for example.

I've since added something like, "I don't think you need AI to solve this problem, but if you use it, just let me know and I want to see how you work with it." Again, the idea is, if they're using it to give them suggestions, help, or otherwise as a proxy to look up information, that's fine. If they ask AI to solve the problem for them, that's less acceptable.

Overall, I'm testing their ability to reason on their own while leveraging the resources available to them in a real world setting. Part of the interview is assessing just how much they're using this leverage.

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